A Colorado jury has cleared the U.S. Postal Service of an ex-postmaster’s allegations that the agency forced him into retirement because he had complained of racial discrimination, after the U.S. Supreme Court had revived the suit.

A Chicago attorney hired to defend a woman and her employer, a litigation finance company, referred a separate lawsuit filed by the company against the woman to his dad and shared privileged information that undercut her interests, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Illinois state court.

The U.S. Department of Labor office that monitors federal contractors for discrimination told its staff on Friday to factor into their work recent executive orders and court rulings on religious freedom and announced plans for narrower reviews targeting the specific types of discrimination it is tasked with rooting out.

Apollo Global Management LLC announced it will pay the majority of a $3 million deal to settle a putative class action alleging that it and a human resources company failed to properly warn about 1,000 employees of layoffs at California locations of Apollo's now-defunct party rentals company.

A split New York appellate court has ruled that the state comptroller wrongly excluded certain biweekly payments when calculating the retirement benefits for several Port Authority of New York and New Jersey employees, finding that the main purpose of the compensation was to delay the workers’ retirement after 9/11.

The D.C. Circuit on Friday upended the U.S. Department of Defense’s win over claims by a former National Defense University professor that he was illegally fired because he was too old, saying there was enough competing evidence for a jury to decide whether the firing was lawful.

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday signed off on a $550,000 deal ending a collective action alleging vehicle floor mat maker WeatherTech illegally denied full overtime wages to more than 1,000 current and former workers.

Wigdor LLP’s Michael Willemin has helped workers for such titans of finance and media as JPMorgan Chase and Fox News bring suits to right alleged workplace wrongs in his young career, earning him a spot as one of five employment law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

In the era of #MeToo, law firms are more conscious than they've ever been about the need to vet a potential new partner who may have a history of misconduct, but their options for screening attorneys are constrained by costs and other practical impediments, namely the need to maintain confidentiality in lateral jumps.

A New York jury has awarded $40.1 million to a man with mesothelioma, placing the bulk of the blame for his asbestos exposure on Goodyear Tire, which has asked for a new trial because of “outrageous remarks” made by the man’s counsel during closing arguments.

Electric vehicle startup EVelozcity sued Faraday & Future on Thursday in California state court, calling a contract term its competitor imposes to prevent departing employees from encouraging colleagues to also leave for another company “illegally restrictive.”

A Second Circuit panel ruled Thursday that a False Claims Act relator cannot avoid the FCA's first-to-file bar by filing an amended complaint after a similar earlier suit had been dismissed, in a case accusing drugmaker Allergan Inc. of providing kickbacks to doctors who prescribed its cataract treatments.

The Eighth Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing ConAgra of not paying workers at an Arkansas facility for time they spent donning and doffing protective gear, saying the company acted according to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accused United Airlines Inc. of discriminating against a flight attendant on the basis of sex for its refusal to punish a pilot, even after he pled guilty to posting provocative images and videos of her on the internet for years, according to a suit filed in Texas federal court Thursday.

The organizer of Chicago’s annual Bud Billiken parade has sued two people it hired to help organize its 2017 event, saying Tuesday that the pair “sabotaged” its relationship with several major sponsors and have threatened to disrupt this year’s procession.

A key prosecution witness in the $20 million cash-for-investment bribery case against former union boss Norman Seabrook told a Manhattan jury Thursday that a designer man-purse and some friendly treatment soothed the defendant when he learned of his less-than-expected $60,000 alleged payout.

The Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that a group of independent drivers who contract with the ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft cannot pursue a challenge to a Seattle ordinance that lets for-hire drivers form quasi-unions, saying the harms they purportedly would suffer are too speculative for their claims to be heard.

The American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law is poised to help lawyers from both sides of the bar find common ground and to guide them through the #MeToo movement and the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's Epic Systems class-action waiver ruling, new section head and Cozen O'Connor employment practice co-chair Joseph Tilson told Law360 in an exclusive interview.

A California federal judge has awarded StubHub a win over allegations it flouted the Defend Trade Secrets Act when it hired three employees from a startup company who allegedly used proprietary data from their former company in apps they developed for the online ticket vendor.

Expert Analysis

As clerks for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we learned early on that, when preparing a memorandum or draft opinion, it was essential to present any opposing argument in its strongest possible light. There is a lesson here for today's public debates, says Trevor Morrison, dean of NYU Law School.

Last month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an ambitious offshore wind power plan. But to succeed, the plan must comply with the many restrictions of the Jones Act, a federal law that reserves U.S. domestic maritime trade to U.S.-built vessels owned and operated by Americans, says Charlie Papavizas of Winston & Strawn LLP.

The number of retaliation charges received by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in recent years has steadily been increasing. It's clear that this issue is bubbling closer to the surface, and it may be even more challenging for employers than the underlying discrimination from which it usually springs, says Amy Strauss of Fisher Phillips.

I clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the days of RBG bobbleheads and “You Can’t Spell Truth Without Ruth” T-shirts. I had no idea I would become a judge, and I feel lucky every day that I had the chance to learn from her, says California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu.

Following the mandated court review of all Fair Labor Standards Act settlements, which resulted from the Second Circuit's decision in Cheeks v. Freeport Pancake House, two recent decisions show how courts have begun to routinely reject agreements that contain terms once considered boilerplate, say Alex Umansky and Jeffrey Rosenberg of the Law Office of Yuriy Moshes PC.

President Donald Trump's announcement of his next U.S. Supreme Court nominee, D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh, had the trappings of reality TV. But left unmentioned were Kavanaugh’s troubling opinions on workplace safety standards, age discrimination and class action plaintiffs, says Daniel Karon of Karon LLC.

A lot has changed since I clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 20 years ago. At that time, I had hair and no wife. I also thought I knew everything — but working for the justice made me realize very quickly that I actually knew very little, says Ninth Circuit Judge John Owens.

While a recent bulletin from the U.S. Department of Labor and a decision from the New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board are of limited, if any, precedential value in the court system, companies would be well-advised to keep in mind the factors outlined in both when addressing questions related to independent contractors and the employer-employee relationship, says Jeffrey Winchester of Fisher Phillips.

After nearly four years of litigation in California federal court, Samantha Jones v. Abercrombie & Fitch is on the cusp of settlement. But depending on whether it's approved, the issue of call-in time as reporting time for purposes of employee compensation in California may still remain unanswered, says Desi Kalcheva of Paul Plevin Sullivan & Connaughton LLP.

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